5. Jumping to conclusions – Assuming something negative where there is no evidence to support it. Two specific subtypes are also identified:
Mind reading – Assuming the intentions of others.
Fortune telling – Predicting how things will turn before they happen.

6. Magnification and Minimization – Inappropriately understating or exaggerating the way people or situations truly are. Often the positive characteristics of other people are exaggerated and negative characteristics are understated.

There is one subtype of magnification: Catastrophizing – Which refers to focusing on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or thinking that a situation is unbearable or impossible when it is really just uncomfortable.

7. Emotional reasoning – Making decisions and arguments based on how you feel rather than objective reality.

8. Making should statements – Concentrating on what you think “should” or ought to be rather than the actual situation you are faced with, or having rigid rules which you think should always apply no matter what the circumstances are. Albert Ellis termed this “Musterbation”.

9. Labeling – Explaining behaviors or events, merely by naming them; related to overgeneralization. Rather than describing the specific behavior, you assign a label to someone or yourself that puts them in absolute and unalterable terms.

10. Personalization (or attribution) – Assuming you or others directly caused things when that may not have been the case. When applied to others this is an example of blame.